Slashdot picked up a story today about PHP finally getting a namespace operator. Good news, until you hear that the operator is the backslash("\"). They reasoned out why this wasn't terrible, but there has been considerable backlash to using the backslash.

php|works 2007 was a great conference, and I learned a ton. Sadly, it's so after the fact now that I'm going to forgo the rest of the notes and coverage that I had. I will say that it's definitely something I want to attend again. After the conference, I jumped back into work and quickly ran out of time and energy. I still have my notes and I may revisit some of those topics, but not like I had originally planned.

The online PHP course I've been taking ended this week. I can honestly say that I learned something new and relevant every class (ok, except the SQLite stuff), and it was very worth taking.

The other week I registered to attend php|works 2007, a PHP developer's conference put on by php|architect.